Shishapangma: the alpine-style first ascent of the South-West Face

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First published in 1984 as The Shishapangma Expedition, Shishapangma won the first ever Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off from Britain to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif near the Nepalese border. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and bureaucratic obstacles so huge they verged on comical, the mountaineers gained access to Shishapangma's unclimbed South-West Face where Doug Scott, Alex MacIntyre and Roger Baxter-Jones made one of the most audacious and stylish ascents ever achiev.;Publisher's Note; Author's Note; Diary of Events; Chapter One -- Preparations; Chapter Two -- Peking to Nyalam; Chapter Three -- Nyalam to Base Camp; Chapter Four -- Trouble at Base Camp; Chapter Five -- Acclimatization Climb; Chapter Six -- Pungpa Ri; Chapter Seven -- The Climb -- Lower Half; Chapter Eight -- To the Summit; Chapter Nine -- Return; Appendix One -- Early Buddhism in Tibet and Milarepa; Appendix Two -- European Advances into Tibet; Appendix Three -- Early Expeditions to Shishapangma and its Vicinity; Appendix Four -- Chronology of Climbing Around Shishapangma.